Strikeforce Shakespeare - Episode 37

Who are these gun-toting mugs wearing tights & ruffled collars, herding citizens onto trucks? Can Falk Zildjian stop an army? Find out!

Strikeforce Shakespeare, episode 37 of This Gun in My Hand, was pacified urbanely by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What light through yonder window breaks? It is the gleaming of This Gun in My Hand!

This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:
1. The seed idea for this episode was a character named Strategic Hamlet. Read more about how American armed forces have actually used it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Hamlet_Program
2. To hear the earlier confrontation between Defenders of the Hearth and the World Crime Syndicate, listen to Episode 13, “OnlyPhantasm.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-13-only-phantasm

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: Window breaking.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/m1a2t3z4/sounds/112213/

Sound Effect Title: Bulldog Howl
By GB01
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/GB01/sounds/174873/

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: Noise
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jhepkema/sounds/149445/

Machine gun sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of “Hamlet” etched by Leopold Flameng after a statue by Lord Ronald Gower, published in the Art Journal, 1881, plus helmet detail from the comic book Warfront, No. 29 (July-September 1956), page 7, pencils and inks by Warren Kremer. Both source images in public domain.